<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face=Gentium><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Gentium;color:navy'>Yes, he does, but we
cannot dismiss the word forms if he is the one informant of the existence of
<<b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>dh</span></i></b>>
v. <<b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>th</span></i></b>>.
If you applied this principle you would have to advocate spelling <<b><i><span
style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>th</span></i></b>> for [θ]
as well as for the sound you assume may have been [ð]. This is what you said (not
your exact words – recapitulating from memory) in “<b><i><span
style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>Clappya Kernowek</span></i></b>”
that, if the Revival were jump-start from scratch you would use <th> for
[θ] and [ð] (as well as <g> for [g] and [ʤ]).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face=Gentium><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Gentium;color:navy'>If all Cornish speakers
and writers of Lhuyd’s time and all the manuscripts that Lhuyd read had
<<b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>th</span></i></b>>
then I’m not surprised <<b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;
font-style:italic'>th</span></i></b>> would appear in his writings even when
he may have intended <<b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>dh</span></i></b>>.
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face=Gentium><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Gentium;color:navy'>I’m not taking
<<b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>nowydh</span></i></b>>,
<<b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>diwedh</span></i></b>>
and <<b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>gwiryonedh</span></i></b>>
for gospel, there’s reason to believe that final voicing was at least
possible in certain contexts and that writing <<b><i><span style='font-weight:
bold;font-style:italic'>dh</span></i></b>> in Revived Cornish, if we accept
the grapheme <<b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>dh</span></i></b>>
at all, is legitimate. We must also avoid canonising <<b><i><span
style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>nowyth</span></i></b>>, <<b><i><span
style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>dyweth</span></i></b>> and <<b><i><span
style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>gwriryoneth</span></i></b>> in
order to make a statement that your theory is right and Ken George’s
theory is wrong, not when we have so little to go by.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=2 face=Gentium><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Gentium'>It would be very easy
to cite many other examples from his Preface.</span></font></span><font size=2
color=navy face=Gentium><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Gentium;color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=2 face=Gentium><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Gentium'>Lhuyd may have been at
pains to highlight the differences between Cornish and Welsh, but he didn't
always succeed. We cannot therefore take his <i><span style='font-style:italic'>nowydh</span></i>
and <i><span style='font-style:italic'>guironedh</span></i> for gospel,
especially when he also writes <i><span style='font-style:italic'>noweth</span></i>
and <i><span style='font-style:italic'>guironeth</span></i>.</span></font></span><font
size=2 color=navy face=Gentium><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Gentium;color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=2 face=Gentium><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Gentium'><span style='orphans: 2;
widows: 2;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px;-webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'>4 Influence of Lhuyd's own
Welsh. Though I would not assume this. Lhuyd takes pains to point out the
differences between Welsh and Cornish. In fact, the whole purpose of his
Archaeologia is to show the similarities and differences between the Celtic
languages.</span></span></font></span><font size=2 face=Gentium><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Gentium'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>